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Management Information Systems B.S.B.Information & Decision Sciences
Curtis L. Carlson School of Management
The management information systems (MIS) major prepares students to plan for, design, use, and manage digital assets of an organization. Digital assets of a modern business environment involve not only technology but also the IT-enabled processes governing business activities as well as the associated information/knowledge acquisition, processing, synthesis, management, and transfer processes. MIS coursework prepares students to make better decisions by applying information technologies to solve business problems and transform enterprise operations and to innovate and manage business processes in different functional areas through the best use of the technological infrastructure of an organization. The collective impact of the coursework is to enable students to understand the role of technology in creating business opportunities and to acquire the skills necessary for the functional management of the tasks needed to secure those opportunities.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Admission Requirements
Freshman and transfer students are usually admitted to pre-major status
before admission to this major.
A GPA above 2.0 is preferred for the following:
Students in the school have no restrictions on declaring the major but must complete the five-tool courses before continuing with the major requirements. Students from outside of the school must meet overall admission standards to enter this major, including completion of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and calculus prior to admission. Transfer students will also need to complete statistics and financial accounting before starting on the major coursework but may do so after admission.
For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the
Office of Admissions
website.
Required prerequisites
Tool Courses
Microeconomics
ECON 1101 - Principles of Microeconomics
[SOCS, GP]
(4.0 cr)
or
APEC 1101 - Principles of Microeconomics
[SOCS, GP]
(4.0 cr)
or
APEC 1101H - Principles of Microeconomics
[SOCS, GP]
(4.0 cr)
Macroeconomics
ECON 1102 - Principles of Macroeconomics
(4.0 cr)
or
APEC 1102 - Principles of Macroeconomics
(3.0 cr)
or
APEC 1102H - Honors: Principles of Macroeconomics
(4.0 cr)
Calculus
MATH 1142 - Short Calculus
[MATH]
(4.0 cr)
or
MATH 1271 - Calculus I
[MATH]
(4.0 cr)
or
MATH 1571H - Honors Calculus I
[MATH]
(4.0 cr)
or
MATH 1371 - CSE Calculus I
[MATH]
(4.0 cr)
Accounting
ACCT 2050 - Introduction to Financial Reporting
(4.0 cr)
or
ACCT 2050H - Honors: Introduction to Financial Reporting
(4.0 cr)
Statistics
SCO 2550 - Business Statistics: Data Sources, Presentation, and Analysis
(4.0 cr)
or
STAT 3011 - Introduction to Statistical Analysis
[MATH]
(4.0 cr)
or
STAT 3021 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics
(3.0 cr)
or
STAT 3022 - Data Analysis
(4.0 cr)
or
PSY 3801 - Introduction to Psychological Measurement and Data Analysis
[MATH]
(4.0 cr)
or
SOC 3811 - Social Statistics
[MATH]
(4.0 cr)
or
IE 3521 - Statistics, Quality, and Reliability
(4.0 cr)
or
EE 3025 - Statistical Methods in Electrical and Computer Engineering
(3.0 cr)
or
CEGE 3102 - Uncertainty and Decision Analysis
(3.0 cr)
or
ANSC 3011 - Statistics for Animal Science
(4.0 cr)
General Requirements
All students in baccalaureate degree programs are required to complete general University and college requirements including writing and liberal education courses. For more information about University-wide requirements, see the
liberal education requirements.
Required courses for the major, minor or certificate in which a student receives a D grade (with or without plus or minus) do not count toward the major, minor or certificate (including transfer courses).
Program Requirements
Lower Division Requirements
Management
Students entering the program as freshmen or sophomores take MGMT 1001. Students who transfer in as juniors complete MGMT 3001 instead.
MGMT 1001 - Contemporary Management
(3.0 cr)
or
MGMT 1001H - Honors: Contemporary Management
(3.0 cr)
or
MGMT 3001 - Fundamentals of Management
(3.0 cr)
Corporate Responsibility
MGMT 1005 - Corporate Responsibility and Ethics
[CIV]
(3.0 cr)
or
MGMT 1005H - Corporate Responsibility and Ethics
[CIV]
(3.0 cr)
Psychology
PSY 1001 - Introduction to Psychology
[SOCS]
(4.0 cr)
or
PSY 1001H - Honors Introduction to Psychology
[SOCS]
(4.0 cr)
Career Skills
BA 3000 - Career Skills
(1.0 cr)
Immersion Core
Students complete the Immersion Core as a cohort.
SCO 3001 - Supply Chain and Operations
(3.0 cr)
MGMT 3004 - Business Strategy
(3.0 cr)
FINA 3001 - Finance Fundamentals
(3.0 cr)
or
FINA 3001H - Honors: Finance Fundamentals
(3.0 cr)
MKTG 3001 - Principles of Marketing
(3.0 cr)
or
MKTG 3001H - Honors:Principles of Marketing
(3.0 cr)
Additional Core Requirements
Information Systems
IDSC 3001 - Introduction to Information Technology in Business
(3.0 cr)
or
IDSC 3001H - Honors: Information Systems for Business Processes and Management
(3.0 cr)
Human Resources
HRIR 3021 - Human Resource Management and Strategy
(3.0 cr)
or
HRIR 3021H - Honors: Human Resource Management and Strategy
(3.0 cr)
or
IBUS 3021 - Human Resource Management and Strategy in Australia
(4.0 cr)
Managerial Accounting
ACCT 3001 - Introduction to Management Accounting
(3.0 cr)
or
IBUS 3002 - Managerial Accounting in Argentina and Chile
(4.0 cr)
Business Communication
MGMT 3033W - Business Communication
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
IBUS 3033W - Business Communication in Spain
[WI]
(4.0 cr)
Major Courses
IDSC 3101 - Introduction to Programming
(2.0 cr)
IDSC 3102 - Intermediate Programming
(2.0 cr)
IDSC 3103 - Data Modeling and Databases
(2.0 cr)
IDSC 3104 - Enterprise Systems
(2.0 cr)
IDSC 3202 - Analysis and Modeling of Business Systems
(4.0 cr)
IDSC 4204W - Strategic Information Technology Management
[WI]
(4.0 cr)
IDSC 4301 - MIS in Action: A Capstone Course
(2.0 cr)
Electives
IDSc 4491, Independent Study in Information Systems, may be considered for elective credit with department approval. Case competition credit may not fulfill elective credit.
Take 4 or more credit(s) from the following:
·
IDSC 4401 - Information Security
(2.0 cr)
·
IDSC 4411 - Information Technology Governance and Assurance
(2.0 cr)
·
IDSC 4431 - Advanced Database Design
(2.0 cr)
·
IDSC 4441 - Electronic Commerce
(2.0 cr)
·
IDSC 4444 - Descriptive and Predictive Analytics
(2.0 cr)
·
IDSC 4455 - Web 2.0: The Business of Social Media
(2.0 cr)
·
IDSC 4471 - Agile Methods
(2.0 cr)
·
IDSC 4490 - Information Systems Special Topics
(2.0 cr)
International Experience
Students must complete an international experience as part of the program requirements. Short term or semester-length programs may be used to meet this requirement. Students participate in International Experience (IE) 101 early in their program to begin planning.
Upper-division Writing Intensive within the major
Students are required to take one upper-division writing intensive course within the major. If that requirement has not been satisfied within the core major requirements, students must choose one course from the following list. Some of these courses may also fulfill other major requirements.
Take 0 - 1 course(s) from the following:
·
IDSC 4204W - Strategic Information Technology Management
[WI]
(4.0 cr)
·
MGMT 3033W - Business Communication
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
IBUS 3033W - Business Communication in Spain
[WI]
(4.0 cr)
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